Hi, I'm running a postfix/dovecot/ldap setup and it works quite fine. I am now trying to setup a global sieve script to forward all incoming mails to a local user for vacation management (gnarwl). I can't user the vacation extension of the sieve script itself because it is not configurable enough (each user has his vacation message and status stored in LDAP).

The problem is that when deliver runs the sieve script, it tries to create the .dovecot.lda-dupes inside the user homedir, even if I didn't use the vacation feature in the script. This is the error I get:

Aug 27 15:19:23 myhostname deliver(user1@mydomain.it): file_dotlock_create( mydomain.it/1/user1@mydomain.it/Maildir/.dovecot.lda-dupes) failed: No such file or directory

Important sections from config:

master.cf deliver: dovecot unix - n n - - pipe flags=DRhu user=mail:mail argv=/usr/lib/dovecot/deliver -f ${sender} -d ${recipient}

dovecot -n extract: mail_location: maildir:/maildirs/%h auth default: passdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf userdb: driver: passwd userdb: driver: ldap args: /etc/dovecot/dovecot-ldap.conf plugin: quota: maildir:User Quota acl: vfile:/etc/dovecot/acls sieve_global_path: /etc/dovecot/default.sieve

and extract from dovecot-ldap.conf : user_attrs = mailMessageStore=home,maildirquota=quota_rule=*:backend=%$ user_filter = (&(|(mail=%u@mydomain.it )(mail=%u)(mailalternateaddress=%u)(mailequivalentaddress=%u))(objectclass=mailrecipient)(imap-status=true)) pass_attrs = mail=user,userPassword=password,mailMessageStore=userdb_home,mailquota=userdb_quota_rule=*:backend=%$ pass_filter = (&(|(mail=%u@mydomain.it )(mail=%u)(mailalternateaddress=%u)(mailequivalentaddress=%u))(objectclass=mailrecipient)(imap-status=true))

The global sieve script:

require ["copy"]; if not address :is "to" "gnarwl@localhost" { redirect :copy "gnarwl@localhost"; }

The format of the "home" userdb extra field as returned from the ldap is " mydomain.it/1/user1@mydomain.it/Maildir/" . This value is normally appended to the mail_location global parameter ( /maildirs ) to build a path of the form "/maildirs/mydomain.it/1/user1@mydomain.it/Maildir" . This works flawlessly when delivering mail, but seems that the sieve plugin ignores the "mail_location" and tries to write the dupes file in the home as it is returned from the ldap.

Questions are:

1. Is it normal that lda tries to create the dupes file even if I am not using the vacation extension at all?
2. How can I tell LDA/sieve/whatever to prepend the mail_location to the home directory of the user for proper creation of the file?

Many thanks in advance.

-- Claudio Tassini